Feathercrown
@Feathercrown@lemmy.world
- Comment on I've got a double peen AMA 1 day ago:
Remember, every 27th customer gets a ball-peen hammer free!
- Comment on the sun will come up in the morning 1 week ago:
not running Biden again
Did Putin forget to update youe cue card?
- Comment on Please people, it's not that hard 1 week ago:
Right?
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
Wow Covid really messed with our perception of time huh /s
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
No way lol
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
That’s wild man, my experience has been quite the opposite. I hope you find the users I’m seeing in my feed.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps you present yourself on Lemmy in an inflammatory way which you do not IRL?
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
For the record these would all be hilarious, ESPECIALLY Rowling
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 weeks ago:
Oh god was that only last year??
- Comment on Faries are real! 2 weeks ago:
Ome of these things is not like the others… 🕷️
Although actually, they do construct elaborate traps, help the world in unexpected ways, and cause mass panic. Maybe they ARE fey.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
No, but it’s going too fast sideways. It would miss the sun. You need to slow it down by the same apeed that Earth is moving, stopping its sideways motion and letting it drop into the sun.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Even if you could do this, it would be more effective to just do the “collect all the garbage” part and then store it in a heavily lined container forever.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, agreed. I was only looking at the OP’s.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
The angle of the fingers is all weird. The middle three and the wrist should be pointing up-right, not up.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 3 weeks ago:
That’s a bad faith question, but I’ll answer it anyways. It helps us because it means that we may now use the discoveries that won them the award.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 4 weeks ago:
Professional blood donor
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
Bruh
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
It’s telling that their counter only goes up to a month
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s fair. I generally follow that philosophy in my personal life; many members of my family are religious to various degrees, but we don’t really discuss it much, and their beliefs don’t really effect my perception of them, because we don’t try to force our beliefs on each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You’ll be accepted in kind, I assume ;)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Religious or not, you shouldn’t be telling people what to believe or how to believe. That goes for hardline Christian nationalists just as much as it goes for hardline Atheists attacking anyone of faith. If it’s not hurting anyone, let people believe what they believe.
I would agree, but I’ve actually become sympathetic to the opposite viewpoint recently. It is hurting people. Look at the policy decisions in the US that are driven by religious fundamentalism. Heck, just think about the core premise that faith is stronger than reason. That’s an inherently problematic and extremely exploitable viewpoint. I don’t think something like religion can be counted as harmless by ignoring all the examples of harm that it causes. If a belief is only not dangerous when it agrees with other beliefs, and is dangerous when it disagrees, then that is a fundamentally dangerous belief all the time, which only becomes apparent sometimes. I think religion has a purpose, to give community to those who need it, but fundamentally it is not good.
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___ If God is reading this, I’m sorry, but I do hope I get points for trying to hold good beliefs from fundamentals. It’s also a reasonable religious viewpoint that organized religion has been taken over by the literal Antichrist. You could say that I hold faith that good acts are judged accordingly regardless of religion. …I would make a really weird Christian.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Good meme, butthurt community
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
I’m also fascinated to know this
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
Damn I hope not but yeah probably :(
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Less niche topics, but higher quality content
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
not once did I mention ChatGPT or LLMs. why do aibros always use them as an argument? I think it’s because you all know how shit they are and call it out so you can disarm anyone trying to use it as proof of how shit AI is.
You were talking about generative AI. Of that category, only text and image generation are mature and producing passable output (music gen sounds bad, video gen is existentially horrifying, code gen or Photoshop autofill etc. are just subsets of text or image gen). I don’t think LLMs or image gen are shit. LLMs in particular are easy to mischaracterize and therefore misuse, but they do have their uses. And image gen is legitimately useful.
Also, I wouldn’t characterize myself as an “ai bro”. I’ve tested text and image generation like half a dozen times each, but I tend to avoid them by default. The exception is Google’s AI search, which can be legitimately useful for summarizing concepts that are fundamental to some people but foreign to me extremely quickly, and then I can go verify it later. I’ve been following AI news closely but I don’t have much of a stake in this myself. If it helps my credibility, I never thought NFTs were a good idea. I think that’s a good baseline for “are your tech opinions based on hype or reality”, because literally every reasonable person agrees that they were stupid.
everything you mentioned is ML and algorithm interpretation, not AI. fuzzy data is processed by ML. fuzzy inputs, ML.
ML is a type of AI, but clearly you have a different definition; what do you mean when you say “AI”?
AI stores data similarly to a neural network, but that does not mean it “thinks like a human”.
That was poorly worded on my part. I know that it doesn’t actually “think”. My point was that it can approach tasks which require heuristic rather than exact algorithms, which used to be exclusively in the human-only category of data processing capabilities. I hope that’s a more clear statement.
if nobody can provide peer reviewed articles, that means they don’t exist
“won’t” =/= “can’t”, but fine, if you specify what you’re looking for I’m willing to do your job for you and find articles on this. However, if you waste my time by making me search for stuff and then ignore it, you’re going on my shared blocklist. What exactly are you looking for? I will try my best to find it, I assure you.
if they existed, just pop it into your little LLM and have it spit the articles out.
Again, I feel like you’re using “AI” to mean “human-level intelligence”, which is incorrect. Anyways, you know that if I asked an LLM to do this it would generate fake citations. I’m not arguing against that; LLMs don’t posess knowledge and do not know what truth is. That’s not why they’re useful.
AI is a marketing joke like “the cloud” was 20 years ago.
I think they’re a bit more useful than the cloud was, but this comparison isn’t entirely inaccurate.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get why people are harping on the term used so much. Whether we call it “intelligence” or not, and even how we define “intelligence” (fairly difficult to do), have no bearing on its abilities. Feel free to call it Machine Learning where applicable, although afaik that term has a more specific meaning so ymmv.
People can use AI to sell things or do bad things, because it’s a new and situationally very powerful tool. It’s also something that’s not very well understood, so it’s particularly susceptible to grifting. I would recommend anyone in today’s world to take some time and reslly understand how it works so that you know when people are being truthful about its applications and when they’re just overhyping a nonsense feature.
In the world of the past, access to knowledge determined how successful at learning the truth people were. Today, that success is determined by your ability to discriminate between good and bad information. We have access to nearly infinite knowledge and nearly infinite lies. Don’t waste the opportunity to learn to tell the difference. It is the greatest asset you can have.
If you want specific studies, please specify exactly what you’re looking for, and perhaps I can help after work. Alternatively, if you know already, you can simply try to find them yourself, which imo would be more efficient.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
Hold the phone, I found two things that are even more closely related
The fact that they both use the GPU is mildly interesting, but means nothing beyond conspiracy theories. These events were set in motion decaded ago, it’s not like AI was invented because Crypto died.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
It allows us to predict the structure of proteins before we make them. This can speed up research into protein-based medical treatments by astronomical amounts-- drugs which took years to develop through trial and error and/or thousands of hours of computational power can now be predicted beforehand in terms of their structure, which allows us to predict how they interact woth the proteins in our body. It’s an incredible breakthrough in the speed of medical research.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
This but unironically
